This final in the six-part series had 8 attendees; the Book Of Life themes were Relationship and Fear. We started with a deep discussion on how relationships – if they’re genuine – bring with them a certain necessary friction wherein one may meet their own conditioned expectations and needs for comfort and security only in […]
There were 12 international zoom Cafe attendees; most were returning supporters. The themes from K’s Book Of Life were Dependence and Attachment. We talked about the deep need to be free, and that the free mind that has humility can actually learn, and that all learning is only when one observes clearly, moment to moment, […]
“Intelligence is the understanding or the discovery of love. Intelligence has nothing whatsoever to do with thought, with cleverness, with knowledge. You may be very clever in your studies, in your job, in being able to argue very cleverly, reasonably, but that is not intelligence. Intelligence goes with love and compassion. You cannot come upon that […]
There were 11-12 international Zoom attendees, almost all were regulars. The themes from The Book of Life were Action and Good and Evil. We started with a discussion on ‘fact’, that it’s not personal, and that there is only the direct recognition of fact when one is communing with and as, what is, as it is […]
There were 16 international Aware Living Cafe attendees who registered for this second Zoom meeting in the series of six on K’s Book Of Life. There’s a growing, friendly communication in the group of regulars and new comers who share their keen interests in deepening understanding. The topics of Belief and Becoming (from ‘February’) […]
“The brain is the result of time, experience and knowledge. The very activity of the brain is based on past remembrances, whether illusory, actual or accumulated knowledge. […] So the past, the present and the future are a movement in time. The past is the present. […] See this fact, that thought and time together […]
There were 12 Aware Living Cafe Zoomers, most were repeated, all were greeted, 🙂 The themes from K’s Book of Life were Authority and Self-Knowledge. Each was presented by a selected full page reading and robustly discussed. The fact that authority prevents learning, that “A mind that is acquiring knowledge is never learning” was deeply explored […]
It’s very rare and important for one to get beyond words, measures and meanings, beyond the totally conditioned mind with its desires and fears, to live and have our being and happiness rooted in what one is that fully satisfies: affectionate awareness: love, peace, beauty and joy in being. ~ James Waite ~ You’re […]
“Experiencing is challenge and response, and this experiencing, together with naming or recording of it, – this total process, at different levels, is consciousness, is it not? ..Thought is always the superficial, the conclusion. Consciousness is the recording of the superficial..[ ] This concluding process is consciousness. The conclusion, the result, is self-consciousness. ..The self […]
We are used to accepting authority, not only the outside authority but also our own peculiar authorities, secret authorities. We are apt to follow rather than investigate into the whole question of authority, the authority of the priest and your own authority of experience and knowledge. When you accept authority inwardly, you are merely following, and […]